Blooms: June - July
Habit: herb
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Distribution: Cheifly east of the Cascades, southern British Columbia to eastern Oregon, east to Montana and Wyoming.
Habitat: Open, usually dry places, often among sagebrush.
Habit: herb
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Distribution: Cheifly east of the Cascades, southern British Columbia to eastern Oregon, east to Montana and Wyoming.
Habitat: Open, usually dry places, often among sagebrush.
Species Description:
General: Perennial with a tap-root, 1-5 dm. tall, sub-erect, generally purplish at the base, the herbage covered densely with short, spreading hairs.
Leaves: Basal leaves triple-nerved, elongate, acute, tapering gradually below, up to 25 cm. long including the petiole, and 1 cm. wide; cauline leaves reduced.
Flowers: Heads 1-16 in an open inflorescence; involucres 5-7 mm. high, grey-hairy, its bracts somewhat imbricate; rays 35-65, pistillate, deep blue or occasionally pink, 7-13 mm. long; pappus double, the inner of 20-30 bristles.
General: Perennial with a tap-root, 1-5 dm. tall, sub-erect, generally purplish at the base, the herbage covered densely with short, spreading hairs.
Leaves: Basal leaves triple-nerved, elongate, acute, tapering gradually below, up to 25 cm. long including the petiole, and 1 cm. wide; cauline leaves reduced.
Flowers: Heads 1-16 in an open inflorescence; involucres 5-7 mm. high, grey-hairy, its bracts somewhat imbricate; rays 35-65, pistillate, deep blue or occasionally pink, 7-13 mm. long; pappus double, the inner of 20-30 bristles.
Accepted Name:
Erigeron corymbosus Nutt.Synonyms:
(none)
Treated in Flora of the PNW as:
Erigeron corymbosus
Additional Resources:
PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Erigeron corymbosus specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Erigeron corymbosus specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.
Washington Flora Checklist: Erigeron corymbosus treatment.
E-Flora BC: Erigeron corymbosus atlas page.
CalPhotos: Erigeron corymbosus images.
USDA Plants Database: Erigeron corymbosus.
Dana Visalli
Dana Visalli
Don Knoke, 2006
Don Knoke, 2006
Don Knoke, 2006
David Giblin, 2009
David Giblin, 2009
David Giblin, 2009
David Giblin, 2009
David Giblin, 2009
G. D. Carr, 2011
G. D. Carr, 2011
G. D. Carr, 2011
G. D. Carr, 2011
G. D. Carr, 2011
G. D. Carr, 2011
G. D. Carr, 2011
G. D. Carr, 2011
Ron Bockelman, 2009
Ron Bockelman, 2010
Ron Bockelman, 2010
Ron Bockelman, 2010
Ron Bockelman, 2010
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